Re: [ga] Letter from ICANN to New.net

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

A telling presumption exhibited here: if the "protocol community"
doesn't like something, ICANN should dump it.  However, the
Internet does not exist for the benefit of the "protocol community"
or ICANN; those two entities exist for the benefit of Internet
users.  It is those users who have the right and obligation to decide
what kind of Internet that will be, the single, "authoritative" (I just
love that audacious presumption!) root or multiple roots.

And most of my questions were not answered at all.

Bill Lovell

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> Bill Lovell wrote:
> >
> >Some relevant questions concerning this letter:
> >
> >On what basis is ICANN claiming "consensus?"
> >
> >What is the basis for the statement "the concept
> >of multiple roots clearly leads to the potential for
> >conflicting top level domains and consequent
> >Internet instability," and if that is true, why is
> >it establishing a .biz TLD, when there already is
> >one of those, which could bring about the
> >very collision it decries?
>
> The basis for this statement is the position of the IETF, as summarised by
> the IAB.
> This item has also been debated at the PSO General Assembly some 10 days
> ago, and there has not been one single voice in favour of multiple roots.
> Incidentally, I have been one among others who spoke in favour of
> IAB/ICANN's position, but of course made it clear that I was speaking only
> as "a member of the DNSO/GA".
>
> I don't want to underestimate the importance of the different political POVs
> on the multiple roots, but since this issue has negligible support (if any
> at all) in the Protocol community, and specifically at the IETF, ICANN
> should not do anything else than dismiss it.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
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